Hegar
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- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 days ago:
This is just an ad for obvious bullshit. Forbes may as well be running articles about how ozempic is done because of this one weird trick a local veteran discovered.
- Comment on Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research 6 days ago:
In the US and Germany, where support for Israel is highest, 66% & 68% still believed that Israel was killing mostly civilians. People in those countries estimated ~10K killed by Israel, though the official number is 64k and still an undercount.
That gap in perception versus reality suggests that attitudes toward Israel have not hit their floor.
Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam”
This is just like Mr Burns being told he's seen as an ogre and replying "Why I should club them and eat their bones!"
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
I'm guessing it'll be more like the dot com bubble in the 90s - too much too soon but it's not going away.
- Comment on AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital 1 week ago:
So the IDF killed a Reuters videographer in a double-tap strike with high explosive rounds on an area of a hospital known as being a spot where journalists set up, after having done drone surveillance which would have confirmed it was a Reuters journalist.
Israel is deliberately targeting journalists, medical staff and first responders for death in their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 1 week ago:
Except dinosaurs weren't taken out and some species like chickens probably have more biomass than ever.
I think that's the more horrific scenario anyway - we cause a massive catastrophe but like the end of a slasher franchise, we're still around to do it all over again.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 weeks ago:
I very much agree that copyright is a tool to protect the wealth of the rich. But I think the idea of restricting access to knowledge in order to benefit a select few predates capitalism. I'd guess it's a common feature of strongly elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current model.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you're talking about Lia Thomas. That's a single example so not necessarily representative.
"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”
"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”
"...finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability... than their cisgender counterparts."
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
Yep, the "fairness" argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth.
Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.
I've heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we're going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.